1. Internationality of Journals: A Case Study of Two Indian LIS Journals Dr. N.S. Harinarayana Associate Professor Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore , Mysore ns.harinarayana@gmail.com Vasantha Raju N. Librarian Govt. First Grade College –Periyapatna Mysore Sunil M. V. Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development Chamundi Hill Road, Mysore National Conference on Knowledge Dissemination Through Journal Publications Centre for Education Beyond Curriculum (CEDBEC) September 28-30, 2011 Christ University , Bangalore

3. Introduction What are academic Journals? An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published (Wikipedia, 2011).

6. Earlier Studies on Internationality of Journals Earlier Studies Techniques used to measure the internationality of Journals Aliaga & Suárez-Rodríguez (2007) Internationality Index Buela-Casal, Perakakis, Taylor & Checa (2006) Developed a set of criteria for measuring Internationality Buela-Casal, Zych, Sierra, & Bermúdez (2007) Internationality Index Davarpana & Behrouzfar (2009) Scientometrics (Citation analysis) Kao(2009) Scientometrics (authorship pattern) Sin (2005) Sceintometrics (Authors geographical affiliations) Uzun (2004) Scientometrics (Foreign authorship pattern) Zainab (2008) Scientometrics Zitt & Bassecoulard (1999) Scientometrics

13. Criteria 6: Multinational Distribution of Users Visitors by Country for http://www.niscair.res.in (Annals of Library and Information Studies)

14. Criteria 6: Multinational Distribution of Users Visitors by Country for http://www.drdo.gov.in DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology

15. Criteria 7: Patterns of International Collaboration Of the 174 articles published in ALIS and DJLIT for two year period from 2009 to 2010 only 3 of them have international collaboration (2 articles for ALIS and 1 article from DJLIT have international collaboration).

16. Criteria 8: Foreign Countries Citing ALIS and DJLIT 14.36% of the article were cited by foreign LIS research community